MONOKER v. STATE

No. 63, September Term, 1989.

321 Md. 214 (1990)

582 A.2d 525

DAVID MONOKER v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

December 5, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Colvin, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Ann N. Bosse, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, (retired), Specially Assigned, JJ.


COLE, Judge.

In this case we are presented with a new twist on the old concept of when two crimes merge, so as to uphold the mandate against double punishment for the "same offense." More specifically, the issue of first impression is whether the crime of soliciting one to perform a criminal act should merge into the subsequent crime of conspiracy to commit that same act.

According to the agreed statement of facts, Petitioner, David Monoker, an attorney, was...

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